The bus ran out of the city and ran in the fields, and Liu Xiyue quietly looked out the window, melancholy and reluctant. There is someone in my heart, sometimes so sweet, sometimes so sour. She was outside the city, but her heart seemed to be still in the city. Thinking of Gao Wutong hiding behind a tree and quietly sending him off, his eyes were moist again. He always said that she was like a child, but sometimes he was more like a child himself.

It was already evening when the bus drove into the county seat. Not long after Liu Xiyue arrived at her grandmother's house, Liu Zongkai and Yang Lanzhi also arrived, carrying a lot of homemade homemade foods such as cured meat, bacon, and walnuts in large bags. The Spring Festival is approaching, and the couple happens to do two things together, not only to visit the elderly, but also to pick up their daughter on the way. When Liu Xiyue was in elementary school, she lived at her grandmother's house every holiday and learned dance in the county youth palace.

When Liu Zongkai entered the door and saw Liu Xiyue, he immediately looked up and down carefully. Liu Xiyue smiled:

"Dad, your eyes look like you're scanning something."

"I haven't seen my daughter in months, so of course I have to take a closer look."

"I'm not thin, I'm a little fat."

Liu Zongkai's face was solemn, and he said in a deep voice:

"Did someone bully you?"

Liu Xiyue's face was full of surprise.

"Nope!"

"Then why are there tear stains in the corners of my eyes, and my face is a little pale."

"Lan Lingmei came to the station to see me off, and I was a little sad when I drove."

"If someone is bullying you, be sure to tell your teachers and your family."

"Got it, Dad."

Seeing Yang Lanzhi looking at herself and pondering, Liu Xiyue threw herself into her arms and hugged her neck and said with a smile:

"Mommy hug, mommy hug."

Yang Lanzhi smiled, hugged Liu Xiyue, touched her head, neck, shoulders, back, waist, and touched her face. Liu Zongkai laughed: "I've become a little girl again." Come here, I'll carry you. ”

Liu Xiyue threw herself on Liu Zongkai's back and kneaded Liu Zongkai's shoulder.

"Daddy has gray hair."

After dinner, the three drove back to Wanxi Town.

Liu Zongkai held the steering wheel in his hand and glanced at Liu Xiyue sitting in the co-pilot seat from time to time.

Liu Xiyue looked quietly ahead, sometimes with a smile on the corner of her mouth, and sometimes with a blank and lonely face. Liu Zongkai asked her, and she answered. Liu Zongkai didn't speak, so she was silent. In the past, Liu Xiyue often liked to compete for the co-pilot seat, giggling, pulling and talking to Liu Zongkai about this and that, but now she is as quiet as a stranger hitchhiking. Liu Zongkai smiled in disappointment.

"The little girl who loves to talk and laugh has grown up."

Yang Lanzhi reached out to the front and touched Liu Xiyue's head.

"When you grow up, you won't be deceived."

Liu Xiyue smiled and did not speak.

Back in Wanxi Town, it was already dark. Liu Zongkai carried the suitcase into Liu Xiyue's room, looked at the two photos of Liu Xiyue when she was a child on the wall, and then looked at Liu Xiyue in front of the wardrobe mirror, and smiled with emotion.

"Time flies!"

"Thank you, Dad."

Liu Xiyue smiled and closed the door, quietly tidying up things alone. She put "On the Water Side" on the writing desk, took out the jade pendant from her bag and put it around her neck, and looked at it carefully in front of the wardrobe mirror.

Gao Wutong said well, she is very compatible with this jade pendant, and there is a kind of complementary effect. Looking at herself in the mirror, she remembered the scene of that day. She was reminiscing about Gao Wutong's sweet words when a person suddenly appeared in the mirror. Liu Xiyue was startled, thinking that she was dazzled, rubbed her eyes and looked at it, hurriedly pulled her clothes to cover the jade pendant, and smiled.

"Mom, you didn't knock on the door when you came in, it scared me."

Yang Lanzhi stared at Liu Xiyue sharply.

"Where did the jade pendant come from?"

"Lan Lingmei borrowed me to wear it to play, and returned it to her at the beginning of school. She has several. ”

"You can't just accept gifts from others outside, if you want to, tell your family."

"You know, you've said it tens of thousands of times."

"The sheets and quilt covers have just been washed, do you want your mother to help you make the bed?"

"Of course. Mom's bed was warm and comfortable, and she slept soundly. ”

Yang Lanzhi made the bed, picked up "On the Water Side" on the desk, flipped it over and put it down.

"Change out of your dirty clothes, and I'll wash them tomorrow."

Liu Xiyue hugged Yang Lanzhi.

"Thank you my good mother."

Yang Lanzhi went out and closed the door, and Liu Xiyue changed her clothes and went to the living room to watch TV.

"You have to make a few good trips this holiday, and ask your mother to take you to buy a few new sets of clothes in two days, and dress them in a classy way. People are beautiful and shiny, and clothes can't be too sloppy. ”

"Not buying. I've only worn my new uniform a few times. ”

"Got it, Mr. Liu, I'll buy it for your baby girl."

"If I hadn't retired and returned to my hometown," Liu Zongkai smiled smugly, "I would have been the principal a long time ago." But please don't want to be it yet. That salary, marrying a girl, can't afford a decent dowry. ”

"What dowry does Boss Liu plan to give his daughter?"

"At least one car, one suite. Of course, the man's family can't be too bad, and the conditions must be doubled. I only have such a daughter, and I don't want my daughter to live tightly. ”

Liu Xiyue stared at the TV intently, as if she hadn't heard her parents speak. The TV is playing "Tang Bohu Dots Autumn Fragrance" starring Stephen Chow, not long ago.

"Xiyue, did you hear your father's words?"

"What?"

Liu Xiyue looked like she hadn't heard anything. In fact, she heard Liu Zongkai's words clearly. She didn't feel anything when she heard about a car and a house, as if it was a matter of course. But when he heard Liu Zongkai ask the man's family conditions to be doubled, his heart tightened.

Liu Zongkai's heart once again swelled up with deep loss. Liu Xiyue used to like to listen to adults, especially the content related to her, and listened with her ears pricked up, and she had to interject a few words from time to time, but now she seems to be a different person, and she doesn't talk much and looks like she doesn't care about herself.

"Your father is going to give you a car and a house as a dowry, so I'm glad you."

Liu Xiyue looked at Yang Lanzhi with a smile.

"I'm still very small, very small, very small, very small."

"You'll be nineteen years old when you graduate, and you can get married at twenty years old under the Marriage Law. When you become a family, Dad's life's tasks can come to an end. ”

"Anyway, I don't like to get married at a young age."

"Then at what age do you think is the right age to get married?"

"Don't think about it until you're twenty-five."

"Why?"

"I don't want to get married before my mom."

"What are you talking about?"

"I don't want to get married younger than you."

"I still don't understand."

"Mom, you got married at the age of twenty-five, and I won't get married until I'm at least twenty-five years old."

"Why is it twenty-five, can't it be twenty-three?"

"I don't know. Then listen to your mother, and think about it after twenty-three. ”

After Liu Xiyue finished saying with a smile, Yang Lanzhi glared at her angrily.

"I didn't tell you to get married after the age of twenty-three."

Liu Zongkai saw that Liu Xiyue was talking about marriage calmly, completely without the shyness and embarrassment of the past, and his heart was mixed, happy and worried. The happy Liu Xiyue is willing to participate in this topic, but she is worried that she doesn't know what she is thinking in her heart.

"Xiyue, your mother didn't get married until she was twenty-five years old, not because she had to wait until that age, but because your grandmother's family objected. Don't get me wrong. ”

Liu Xiyue smiled nonchalantly.

"Then you will oppose me."

Yang Lanzhi glanced at Liu Zongkai and frowned disapprovingly.

"Are you going to blame my mom again? It's good enough for me to resist the pressure to marry you. ”

"You're thinking too much, I just want to tell your baby daughter the specific reason so that she doesn't misunderstand."

"You worked hard, but unfortunately people don't want to hear it."

Liu Xiyue stared at the TV with an indifferent look.

Liu Zongkai and Yang Lanzhi looked at each other, and Yang Lanzhi said:

"Xiyue, you've watched this movie two or three times, and you still like it so much."

"Mom, the real Tang Bohu should be more talented, and he won't be so obscene, right?"

"The literati are actually similar, poor and sour, with a set of rhetoric, timid in doing things, and the so-called talent is just a frivolous disguise, which can only be used to deceive hot-headed ignorant girls. Articles and people are fundamentally two different things. Some girls are ignorant of the world, and they think they are personable, elegant, and take the initiative to give them a hug, but they are actually very stupid. ”

Yang Lanzhi didn't know anything about Gao Wutong and Liu Xiyue, but her words seemed to be in Liu Xiyue and Gao Wutong. Liu Xiyue blushed unnaturally. Liu Zongkai said with a smile: "Fortunately, I chose mathematics back then, otherwise I would definitely be poor and sour, but you, a Chinese teacher, are too disgraceful to the literati." ”

"I'm telling the truth. Xiyue, in case you meet such a person, you have to be careful of being deceived, and it is best not to ignore it. ”

"This kind of person doesn't have any words written on her face, how can you tell her to tell the difference?"

"So it's better to get married and find someone who knows the roots."

"Xiyue, did you hear your mother's words?"

Liu Xiyue tuned the TV to the children's channel and said with a smile: "I heard it." In case you encounter a liar literati, you should be careful of being deceived, and it is best to let the other party be deceived. ”

"Courage. Good! It's exactly like your mom back then. ”

Liu Zongkai laughed. Yang Lanzhi frowned angrily.

"You didn't drink a bar tonight?"